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Profig

The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.

Founded2012
Event year2012
Cash burnedUS$5M

01 / WHAT IT BUILT

What the company did

Profig offered small and medium businesses a virtual telephone system intended to replace costly legacy hardware and software.

02 / Profig FAILURE REASONS

Failure reasons

The founder said Profig was a pivot from the team’s original idea and they lacked enough commitment to spend years pursuing it. They chose to stop quickly; no specific financing failure was disclosed.

03 / EVENT HISTORY

Events in the structured record

  1. Operations ended

    Virtual-phone-system startup Profig shut down in November 2012, less than three months after launch.

  2. Launch and early closure

    The service launched in August and had ended by the 9 November report, which quoted its founder’s explanation.

04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT

Difficulty of rebuilding this project today

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Rebuild difficultyPending assessmentNot completed
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ScalabilityPending assessmentNot completed
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Overall assessment: Not completed

05 / CAUSAL CHAIN

How the factors connect

  1. 01

    Team pivoted away from original idea

  2. 02

    Founders lacked commitment to the new direction

  3. 03

    Service ended shortly after launch